Ozer Schild

Schild was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.[2] He identified as an Orthodox Jew before the Holocaust, and was not affiliated after the WWII.[3] During the Holocaust he went into hiding under a false identity in Copenhagen, and in Saunte, Denmark.[3]

He completed a master's degree in economics in the University of Copenhagen in 1957, and then made aliyah and immigrated to Israel that year.[2][4][5] In 1965, he received a doctorate in psychology and sociology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2][5] After post-doctoral work at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, he returned in 1968 to Israel to head the Psychology Department at Hebrew University.[2][6]

Together with Daniel Kahneman, Schild volunteered to assist the Israel Air Force Flight Academy in improving its selection and training procedures.[2] In 1973, he moved to Be'er Sheva to serve as Dean of the Humanities Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.[2] In 1974, he was appointed Chief Scientist of the Israel Education Ministry.[2]

In 1976, Schild moved to the University of Haifa to head the School of Education.[2] In 1978 he was appointed rector of the university.[2]

Schild was appointed president of the University of Haifa in 1990.[2]

In October 1993, Schild, with another four-year term ahead of him, resigned from the University of Haifa presidency and moved from Haifa to Ariel.[2][7][8][9] At the College of Judea and Samaria, known as "Ariel College," Schild taught statistics and research methods.[2][8][9] He later became president of the college there.[2][10]

He and his wife had two children.[2]